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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) -The State Historical Society of North Dakota has awarded the Tri-County Tourism Alliance a grant to collect interviews and create a traveling photo exhibit called “Women Behind the Plow.”

Over the next two years, the grant will be used to collect interviews and photographs of Russian German women who assisted their spouses on farms in South Central North Dakota.

These photos and interviews will be used to create a traveling exhibit to help honor the unrecognized work of the women.

The exhibit will be unveiled at the 2015 Wishek Sauerkraut Days and afterwards will be available for traveling and use in other exhibits.

If you are interested in being interviewed for this project you must be willing to do a video taped interview and to be photographed for the exhibit. The alliance asks for old black and white photographs of farm life, home chores, wedding day and school portraits, etc. to supplement the interviews. Interviewees need not be currently living in the Tri-county area to qualify for an interview but be born before 1950 and at one time lived and farmed in the tri-county area.

Interviewing will begin in the early spring, please contact Sue Balcom at 701-527-5169 to set up your interview.